tomkat0789

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by tomkat0789 7y ago
Louisianaian here! Back when I did my PhD at LSU 5 years ago, the university seemed like it was constantly in a budget crisis from a combination of state funding cuts and public demands for low tuition (lots of people in Louisiana view LSU
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
“I like the children to realise how far they’ve travelled and see how the landscape changes. It’s just a thing we’ve always worked around. Your journey becomes part of your holiday.” +1 to this! I haven't traveled much like this since
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
My brain drain story: I got a nice engineering degree in the South, even had a phd project supported by the local chemical plant. Why I left: 1. GF/now wife had advanced degrees, and there were no advanced opportunities for her in my
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by tomkat0789 7y ago
Illinois does too on the state Department of Revenue's website! Hooray for state government!
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Devuan considers machine IDs(distrowatch.com)
57 points by tomkat0789 8y ago|72 comments
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
I'm seeing a lot of folks making a connection between hydraulic fracturing in the US and this earthquake. In fact, the earthquakes in Oklahoma were caused by waste water wells: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injec
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Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America(defenseone.com)
6 points by tomkat0789 8y ago|2 comments
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
There's a lot of comments considering the general case of losing a key person on a project, but I think it'd be interesting to speculate on what happens to Linux when Linus leaves the project! Will it go embrace, extend, extermina
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
I had to learn some computer vision, specifically how to make nice visualizations with 3D point clouds. I need to make a mesh from a 3D point cloud then drape an image over the mesh I created. I wasn't able to find a great algorithm so
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
I'd like to hear about other Hacker News readers experiences trying to quit the "Big 5"! What do you do if your spouse/friends/work aren't on board?
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
How did the situation in Germany et al work out? Didn't researchers there start this movement? Google News searches have disappointing me. IIRC, Finland straight up told their scientists to use SciHub.
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Europa or Enceladus? If NASA Switches from SLS to Falcon Heavy, It Can Do Both(spacenews.com)
3 points by tomkat0789 8y ago|0 comments
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
This may be a dumb question, but could dark matter just be regular matter, like planetoids? What if interstellar space had a light sprinkling of things like Oumuamua? On an interstellar scale, maybe this could create the lensing effects and
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
I've wondered if people were forgetting trees in climate modeling ever since I read in 1492 about the hypothesis that the European mini ice age was caused by forests growing on abandoned Indian farms in North America.
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
I've been persuaded by In Defense of Food and my father's experiences on the Ornish diet that 97% veganism is a pretty good health/lifestyle choice if done right. I'd like to do vegan, but the wife doesn't completel
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
Big machines are cool. Now I want to Google to find what the insides of a big diesel locomotive looks like... Anybody know where one could find cool pictures of powerful electric motors?
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
Could you put a machine (that wasn't powered by TNT or something equally crazy) into a space ship for protection from cosmic rays? Is that something people are looking into?
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
Pardon me, I'm sort of a casual Linux user and I have no idea what people are talking about. What are GNU Guix and Shepherd? A cursory glance at Wikipedia makes it seem like they're GNU alternatives to the apt-get and init/sy
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
Yep, I've never worked in a room with windows. It leads to what I call coal miner syndrome: go in before the sun rises, leave after it sets. Bums me out, particularly during the winter. :( Luckily, where I work now, we're getting
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F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development(pogo.org)
142 points by tomkat0789 8y ago|198 comments
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
Digital ghost towns! Are we seeing the emergence of a "digital archaeology" exploring the abandoned ruins of the Internet's past?
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
I did my PhD dissertation on a similar topic to this. The company I worked with despised neural net methods because it wasn't robust to new operating regimes that cropped up frequently and it wasn't explainable enough for anybody
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
That's why I keep my PhD in academia. The papers I published in grad school just felt like a more grown up version of school homework, with a small clique of prominent guys at the top getting most of the attention.
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
There's also sort of an issue from a bunch of open access publishers acting like con-artists - charging researchers made up fees to publish in their made up journals. A certain librarian made a rather useful list of "predatory&quo
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Job for SpaceX’s BFR Rocket? Taking the Air Force’s Cargo in and Out of Space(defensenews.com)
1 points by tomkat0789 8y ago|0 comments
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
Never heard of bandit algorithms before! Or if I did I didn't recognize it as something different from probability. What have people around here used them for?
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
I wonder if this holds lessons for farming in space? They're both rather closed environments, though the sea obviously provides extra water (and more). There won't be cloudy days in space! For those worried about negative environm
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
Local government standing up to a big cable company? Is this what it looks like?
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Universities in Germany and Sweden Lose Access to Elsevier Journals(the-scientist.com)
2 points by tomkat0789 8y ago|0 comments
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by tomkat0789 8y ago
This made me wonder: what parts of our pop culture will be studied as rigorously as historical literature? Where will RPGs and video games fit in? Will some odd history professor in 2100 awkwardly DM a game for bored future college student

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